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compressed

[kuhm-prest] / kəmˈprɛst /














ADJECTIVE
wrung
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Live DJs spin records on a set of turntables, which helps to create a richer and more analog sound that is closer to the original track than compressed versions such as MP3s.

From Los Angeles Times

The first, which he began making in the early 1960s, were mysterious, sinisterly bejeweled boxes, little containers of compressed surrealism festooned with hundreds of shiny straight pins.

From The Wall Street Journal

But he says the selloff has compressed multiples at a pace rarely seen outside of the 2008 crisis.

From MarketWatch

“The market fragmented overnight and margins compressed to nearly nothing,” Citrini wrote.

From Barron's

Yet from the standpoint of information theory, the same ideas could theoretically be transmitted in a far more compressed format.

From Science Daily